Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

One year into the ERDC project, the team demonstrated a three-step approach that “cleans” the water, removes the algae and entrained nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus from the water, and transforms the algae into a potential energy source. Algae biorefinery concept through HTL. It was a great proof of concept.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2014

announced a collaborative investment in three new research and development projects to improve Arctic and harsh-environment offshore oil and gas operations in Newfoundland and Labrador and around the world. in researching concepts and designs for deepwater Arctic separation and storage facilities. The total value of the projects is $3.9

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MARCH 18, 2015

Now the slick but dry state is becoming famous for water: that precious element that both resolves the drought problem and also makes it possible to pump more oil out of the ground. At the same time, the new technology uses no chemicals, rendering it quite possibly the ‘greenest’ water processing technology in operation today.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Projects will work to reduce the LCOE through multiple approaches, including increasing generation efficiency, increasing rotor area per unit of equivalent mass, lowering operation and maintenance costs, minimizing potential impacts on the surrounding environment, and maximizing system reliability. University of Washington. SRI International.

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Mariner Universal Grid Water 418

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

In collaboration with the farming community of the Indian Creek Watershed in central Illinois, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) are finding ways to meet three agrarian land management objectives simultaneously: maximizing a farmer’s production; growing feedstock for bioenergy; and protecting the environment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

During the month-long field test, the second-generation prototype of the fully-electric Honda AWV performed a range of functions at a large-scale solar energy construction project, including towing activities and transporting construction materials, water, and other supplies to pre-set destinations within the work site.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

The transformation will integrate sustainability and innovation throughout the built environment, including a new Sustainability Showcase building on the product campus, which will aim to meet Living Building Challenge standards, the highest level of sustainability certification today. More than 7.5 No combustion is allowed. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 26, 2016

syngas—from water and CO 2. Now, a team from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland has demonstrated the direct production of hydrocarbon fuel—specifically methane—from water and CO 2 by incorporating a catalytic process into STCs. Click to enlarge. —Lin et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

[(PY5Me 2 )Mo(CF 3 SO 3 )] 1+ reacts with water to form. In addition, our catalyst does not require organic additives, and can operate in neutral water, even if it is dirty, and can operate in sea water, the most abundant source of hydrogen on earth and a natural electrolyte. PY5Me 2 )MoO] 2+ and H 2. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 3, 2021

physically moving the macroalgae between deep nutrient-rich water at night and shallow depths within the photic zone during the day to optimize growth. 13 C values suggesting that the depth-cycled kelp were not nitrogen-deficient and assimilated nutrients from deep water. The researchers used a depth-cycling approach—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2021

The method makes green ammonia from air, water and renewable electricity and does not require the high temperatures, high pressure and huge infrastructure currently needed to produce this essential compound. Once we generated that intermediary in water, designing a selective catalyst and scaling the system became significantly easier.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2023

The major compound groups in FPBO are water (20–25 wt %), carboxylic acids (∼ 5 wt %), aldehydes, ketones, and furfurals (25 wt %), sugar-like material (30–35 wt %), and lignin-derived compounds (20 wt %). In HTL, wet feedstock is liquefied in a hot (250–374 °C) and pressurized (4–22 MPa) water environment into biocrude oil.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

Mars yard, designed with input from planetary scientists at U-M, to enable researchers and student teams to test rover and lander concepts on a landscape that mimics the Martian surface. Robots and robotics for any environment. —Tony Lockwood, technical manager, Autonomous Vehicle Research, Ford Motor Company.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2023

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, are proposing burying salted biomass in a dry environment within an engineered biolandfill as a solution to sequester carbon that has been photosynthetically fixed by cultivated plants. This is measured by “water activity,” a quantity similar to relative humidity. In 1 y, PNAS.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2015

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a highly effective new perovskite-promoted iron oxide redox catalyst for a hybrid solar-redox scheme they had proposed earlier for partial oxidation and water-splitting of methane. To further enhance this effect, they proposed a layered reverse-flow reactor concept.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

Going forward, Volkswagen aims to look at emerging battery technologies and get an early understanding of how new concepts and prototypes can withstand the company’s rigid specifications. The BEL’s focus on sustainability goes beyond its work, encompassing the facility's operation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

—principal investigator Marina Kalyuzhnaya To do this, the researchers will tap into the natural propensity of methane-consuming bacteria living in extreme conditions to capture REEs from the environment. The bacteria require rare earth elements to make one of the key enzymatic reactions in their metabolic pathways, said Kalyuzhnaya.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2019

SW/TCH Maritime (SW/TCH), an impact investment platform building the first fleet of zero-emissions maritime vessels in the US, announced its investment to construct and own the ‘Water Go Round’ e-ferry in collaboration with Golden Gate Zero Emission Marine ( GGZEM ), a provider of turn-key hydrogen fuel cell power systems for ships.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Two awards will advance flexible operation of light-water reactors with integrated hydrogen production systems. The system will be critically verified and validated through collaboration with INL such that it will be ready to integrate into the nuclear environment. These projects, valued at $26.9

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Because it requires less of the rare and costly metal iridium, the new catalyst could bring down the cost of artifical photosynthetic processes that use sunlight to split water molecules—a key step in a renewable, sustainable pathway to produce hydrogen or carbon-based fuels that can power a broad range of energy technologies.

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Water Renewable Charlotte Fuel 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2017

a leading provider of LiDAR sensors and smart sensing solutions, are collaborating to design an automotive headlight concept with built-in Quanergy S3 solid state LiDAR sensors ( earlier post ). Koito Manufacturing Co., the largest global maker of automotive headlights, and Quanergy Systems, Inc.,

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

According to the Brandenburg Ministry of the Environment , the objections of residents and environmental associations, as well as the statements of authorities and Tesla itself, would be listed on an online platform for three weeks. Tesla assured that Gigafactory Berlin would not be detrimental to the drinking water supply of the area.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2015

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an artificial photosynthetic scheme for the direct solar-powered production of value-added chemicals from CO 2 and water using a two-step process involving a biocompatible light-capturing nanowire array with a direct interface with microbial systems. —Liu et al.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 3, 2013

Traditionally, concept cars are superficial beasts, showing off an automaker''s latest style, eventually watered down and rationalized before they hits the road. More recently, they''ve also previewed new drivetrain technologies and materials, as products are now expected to minimize their impact on the environment.

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Volvo Concept Green Cars 77

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MARCH 5, 2023

It features the flexibility to change the layout of the fuel cell units to suit the installation environment and to accommodate cubic, L-shaped, Z-shaped, and other packaging configurations. The Torrance fuel cell station also serves as a proof of concept for future commercialization of the power generation unit. m 2 Approx.

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JUNE 26, 2015

million) research project, selected for funding under the Horizon 2020 Programme, to advance the biocatalytic production of drop-in liquid hydrocarbon transportation fuels, requiring only sunlight, CO 2 and water. Technology concept formulated. Experimental proof of concept. Technology validated in relevant environment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2020

Our goal is to industrialize 3D printing methods more and more for automotive production, and to implement new automation concepts in the process chain. With IDAM, the BMW Group and its 12 project partners are paving the way for the integration of additive manufacturing into series production environments within the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. 8 Rivers Capital.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2009

While effective at keeping wine inside a bottle, suberin’s most important function in plants is to control water and nutrient transportation and keep pathogens out. Liu’s group is currently engaged in proof-of-concept experiments to demonstrate this approach. Chang-Jun Liu.

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Environment Polymer Water Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

Resource managers now have a method to determine the source of oil found in the waters off Southern California and differentiate between naturally seeped oils and those produced by offshore oil and gas production. The analysis resulted in a predictive model of oil source families that could be applied to samples of unknown origin.

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2022

The past two years, after all, required the State Office of the Environment to not only inspect and approve the factory itself, but also the entire industrial area with several large-scale facilities. In times of climate crisis, the availability of water will play an increasingly important role for future developments and settlements.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Toyota has finally jumped on board the EV juggernaut with its most iconic model, the LandCruiser, with the all-electric LandCruiser Se concept. Sitting alongside it at the 2023 Tokyo motor show was the Toyota EPU, described as a “next-generation mid-sized pickup truck concept” that is effectively a futuristic electric Hilux.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2019

The new generation zero-emission truck expands on the capabilities of Toyota’s first two Project Portal Proof-of-Concept trucks through enhanced capability, packaging, and performance while offering an estimated range of more than 300 miles per fill, twice that of a typical drayage trucks average daily duty cycle.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2024

Gisele Waters Steps for defining problems and business needs The five processes are 1) defining the problem and solution requirements, 2) evaluating vendors, 3) evaluating solutions, 4) negotiating contracts, and 5) monitoring contracts. They are isolated environments where new concepts and simulations can be tested.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

MAZDA SPIRIT RACING Bio concept DEMIO. It also plans to enter the ST-Q class of the Super Taikyu Race in Okayama in its MAZDA SPIRIT RACING Bio concept DEMIO vehicle, which is equipped with a 1.5-liter By repeatedly conducting verification tests in races, Mazda intends to increase the reliability of its technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2020

Joint project between Wärtsilä and PSA Marine sees first commercial Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship (MASS) trialled in Port of Singapore waters. The IntelliTug trials are part of MPA’s MASS initiative, which aims to accelerate the industry’s R&D capability in this field, and validate new MASS-related concepts of operations and technologies.

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Mariner Singapore Environment Commercial 259

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2016

Regulating water content in polymeric membranes is important in a number of applications—such as in the proton-exchange fuel-cell membranes used in automotive fuel cell stacks. Water content in the membranes is regulated through nanometer-scale cracks (nanocracks) in a hydrophobic surface coating. —Park et al.

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